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Mar 25 - Mar 31, 2024
Policies and recommendations / Surveys of policies and recommendations
- Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives - IMLS funded project to produce tools and strategies that support responsible use of AI in the field (2022-2025)
Mar 11 - Mar 17, 2024
Learning Resources / Introductions to AI
- Codecademy AI Courses – many topics; some lessons are free, some are for-fee
Mar 04 - Mar 10, 2024
Tools and Frameworks / Audio and video analysis, transcription, and labeling
- ELAN – addS textual annotations to audio and/or video recordings (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands)
Datasets / Datasets available on Hugging Face
Projects, Initiatives, and Case Studies / Select individual projects
- Argilla prompt-collective – crowdsourcing effort to rank 50,000 prompts, on Hugging Face
- BigLAM – BigScience Libraries, Archives and Museums on Hugging Face
- Nasjonalbiblioteket AI Lab – National Library of Norway on Hugging Face
- KBLab – National Library of Sweden on Hugging Face
- PleIAs – French organization training LLMs with an open science approach
Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2024
Datasets / Datasets available elsewhere
Feb 12 - Feb 18, 2024
Learning Resources / Other "awesome" lists in AI and ML
Feb 05 - Feb 11, 2024
Learning Resources / Introductions to AI
- Introduction to AI for GLAM – by Library Carpentries
Learning Resources / Computer vision
- Computer Vision for Heritage Collections – French-language 2 hr workshop designed to introduce computer vision applications to cultural heritage professionals
Learning Resources / Other "awesome" lists in AI and ML
Datasets / Datasets available elsewhere
- HTR datasets in Zenodo – subject search in Zenodo
Conferences and Workshops / Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- BitCurator Forum – Mar. 19–22 virtual event on digital forensics, digital archives, and related digital analysis workflows
- Digital Library Federation (DLF) 2024 Forum – Jul. 29–31 at Michigan State U., East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
- International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2024 – Aug. 30–Sep. 4 in Athens, Greece.
Jan 22 - Jan 28, 2024
Learning Resources / Generative AI
- What are large language models (LLMs)? – (YouTube) by Google for Developers
- Generative AI for Everyone – free Coursera course by Andrew Ng
- What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? – by Stephen Wolfram
Journals and Magazines / Past Conferences and Workshops
Jan 15 - Jan 21, 2024
Learning Resources / Introductions to AI
- Elements of AI – free course by MinnaLearn & University of Helsinki
- AI Guide by the AI Pedagogy Project – collection of materials by metaLAB
- Machine Learning 101 – by Jason Mayes from Google
Learning Resources / Computer vision
- A Gentle Introduction to Computer Vision – from Machine Learning Mastery
- Computer Vision for the Humanities: An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification – two-part intro by the Programming Historian
Learning Resources / Natural language processing
- A Code-First Introduction to NLP – by Rachel Thomas of fast.ai
- NLP course and associated GitHub repo (⭐9.4k) – by Elena Voita
- NLP accelerated class – by Machine Learning University
- Deep Learning for NLP – from Machine Learning Mastery
Learning Resources / Generative AI
- A Very Gentle Introduction to LLMs without the Hype – by Mark Riedl
- A brief introduction to GenAI – by U. Michigan MIDAS
Learning Resources / Other "awesome" lists in AI and ML
Tools and Frameworks / Document analysis, transcription, and labeling
- Callico – open-source web platform for document annotation
- Distributed Annotation 'n' Enrichment (DANE) (⭐2) – compute task assignment & file storage for automatic annotation of content (CLARIAH, Norway)
- HTRFLOW demo and associated GitHub repo (⭐23) – explore AI models for Handwritten Text Recogntion (Swedish National Archives)
- Label Studio – data labeling platform to fine-tune LLMs, prepare training data, or validate AI models
- OCR correction – OCR correction tools (Bibliothèque nationale, Luxembourg)
- Surya (⭐5.1k) – multilingual document OCR toolkit with line-level text detection
- Text models from the National Library of Sweden – available on Hugging Face
- Transkribus – transcription, recognition, & searching of historical documents
Tools and Frameworks / Audio and video analysis, transcription, and labeling
- Acoustic models from the National Library of Sweden – available on Hugging Face
- Audiovisual Metadata Platform (AMP) – generation of metadata for discovery & use of digital audio & video collections (Indiana U., USA)
- CAMPI – Computer-Aided Metadata Generation for Photo archives Initiative (Carnegie Mellonw U., USA)
- inaFaceAnalyzer (⭐16) – Python toolbox for face-based description of gender representation in media (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, France)
- Newspaper Navigator – explore visual & textual content in the Chronicling America digitized newspaper collection (Library of Congress, USA)
- Oodi – virtual information assistant (Helsinki Central Library)
- ReTV – video analysis & summarization (Modul Univesrity, Austria)
Tools and Frameworks / Indexing and classification
- Annif and associated tutorial (⭐33) – tool for automated subject indexing and classification (National Library of Finland)
Tools and Frameworks / Search and retrieval
- GallicaPix – retrieval of heritage images (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
- GallicaSNOOP – framework for large-scale content-based image retrieval (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
- Maken Similarity Service – tools for alternative reading & finding similar photographs (National Library of Norway)
- Semantic search for Nasjonalmuseet’s online collection – open beta test (National Museum of Norway)
- VGG Text Search (VTS) Engine – search for text strings over a user-defined image set
Tools and Frameworks / Applications of Transformers, LLMs, and GPT
- BERTopic – topic modeling technique that leverages Transformers and c-TF-IDF
- Chatbot for Luxembourgish newspapers – uses ChatGPT and understands French, German and English (Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg)
- Norwegian Transformer Model (NoTraM) (⭐105) – transformer model for Norwegian and Nordic languages (National Library of Norway)
- Swedish BERT (⭐136) – BERT model for the Swedish language (Royal Library of Sweden)
- Visual AI – open-world interpretable visual transformer (UK)
Datasets / Datasets available elsewhere
- Gensim datasets (⭐932) – repository of datasets for unstructured text processing
- HTR-United – datasets for training transcription or segmentation models
- nlp-datasets (⭐5.6k) – free/public domain datasets with text data for use in NLP
- Open Library data dumps – from the Internet Archive
- Registry of Open Data on AWS – datasets tagged by topic
Projects, Initiatives, and Case Studies / Project lists & directories
- List of Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiatives in museums – compiled in 2021 by Elena Villaespesa, Oonagh Murphy and Kate Nadel for the Museums+AI Network project.
- Projects in AI Registry (PAIR) – registry of AI projects in higher education (U. Oklahoma Libraries, USA)
Projects, Initiatives, and Case Studies / Select individual projects
- Living with Machines – Turing Institute & British Library
- Vatican Manuscripts – machine transcription in the Vatican Secret Archive
Policies and recommendations / Statements by organizations and government bodies
Policies and recommendations / Surveys of policies and recommendations
- A cluster analysis of national AI strategies – Brookings Institute analysis of different countries’ national AI strategies, Dec. 2023
- A principled governance for emerging AI regimes: lessons from China, the European Union, and the United States by R. B. L. Dixon in AI and Ethics, 3, 793–810, 2023
- AI Governance Alliance: Briefing Paper Series – by the World Economic Forum, Jan. 2024
- AI policies across the globe: Implications and recommendations for libraries by L. S. Lo in IFLA Journal, 49(4), 645–649, 2023
- Principled Artificial Intelligence: Mapping Consensus in Ethical and Rights-Based Approaches to Principles for AI by Fjeld et al, Berkman Klein Center Research Publication No. 2020-1, 2020
- What ethics do I need to consider when using AI? – blog posting by Livi Adu, Nov. 2023
Conferences and Workshops / Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES) 2024 – Sep. 16–20 in Ghent & Flanders, Belgium.
- CIDOC 2024 & Frontiers of knowledge, museums, documentation, and linked data – Nov. 11–15 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Journals and Magazines / Past Conferences and Workshops
Jan 08 - Jan 14, 2024
Tools and Frameworks / Audio and video analysis, transcription, and labeling
- Annotorious – JavaScript image annotation library
- VGG Image Annotator – manual annotation software for image, audio and video
Projects, Initiatives, and Case Studies / Project lists & directories
- Inventory of NARA Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use Cases - the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)'s inventory of AI use cases
Journals and Magazines / Past Conferences and Workshops
Dec 18 - Dec 24, 2023
Learning Resources / Generative AI
- The Illustrated Transformer, a visual introduction to transformers
- Introduction to Generative AI, by Google
- Generative AI for Beginners - A Course, by Microsoft
- A Generative AI Primer, by the UK's National Centre for AI
Learning Resources / AI in galleries, libraries, archives and museums
- The CENL "AI in Libraries" network group is also organizing webinars on AI implementation in GLAM.
Dec 11 - Dec 17, 2023
Learning Resources / Introductions to AI
- DeepLearning.AI Short Courses, a free courses from a platform created by Andrew Ng
- Introduction to Hugging Face, a free course by Codecademy
Learning Resources / AI in galleries, libraries, archives and museums
- The AI4LAM YouTube channel has introductory presentations on many topics
Policies and recommendations / Frameworks
- A Framework for U.S. AI Governance: Creating a Safe and Thriving AI Sector white paper by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Dec. 11, 2023. (See also related article in MIT News.)
Dec 04 - Dec 10, 2023
Learning Resources / Introductions to AI
- Introduction to Deep Learning, by Sebastian Raschka
- Dive into Deep Learning, by Zhang et al.
Policies and recommendations / Statements by organizations and government bodies
Policies and recommendations / Frameworks
- A Comprehensive AI Policy Education Framework for University Teaching and Learning by C. K. Y. Chan in International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 20(38), 2023.
Nov 27 - Dec 03, 2023
Conferences and Workshops / Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- IIPC General Assembly & Web Archiving Conference – Apr. 24–26 at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France.
- Fantastic Futures 2024 – Oct. 16–18 at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), Canberra, Australia.
Conferences and Workshops / Past Conferences and Workshops
- ai4Libraries Conference – Oct. 19 virtual event hosted by Georgia Tech Library, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- Fantastic Futures 2018 – Dec. 5 at the National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway.
- Fantastic Futures 2019 – Dec. 4–6 at Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
- Fantastic Futures 2021 – Dec. 8–10 at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France.
- Fantastic Futures 2022 – Nov. 30–Dec. 2 virtual event hosted by the British Library, London, England.
- Fantastic Futures 2023 – Nov. 15–17 at Internet Archive Canada Headquarters, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.